Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Energy (DENERG)
- Member of Interdepartmental Center CWC - CleanWaterCenter@PoliTo
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Pietro Asinari is President of the Italian National Institute for Metrology Research - INRiM (2025-present), Full Professor in the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Torino, member of the Board of the PhD in Energetics and Vicepresident of the Italian Union of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics (UIT). Formerly he was Scientific Director of the Italian National Institute for Metrology Research - INRiM (2020-2025). He graduated with honors (summa cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and received his PhD in Energetics in 2005, in collaboration with Virginia Tech (USA), winning the ENI-Italgas Award for Energy and the Environment for his PhD dissertation. He has been invited speaker and/or plenary lecturer (34 times), invited lecturer for advanced courses worldwide (13) and invited visitor for research stays abroad (6). He was formerly a member of the Operational Management Board of the European Council for Material Modeling (EMMC) from 2014 to 2019 and Project Technical Advisor (PTA) of the European Commission (EC), Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Unit D.3 — Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies from 2014 to 2016. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Heliyon Energy (Cell Press) since 2016. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Union of Thermo-fluid dynamics (UIT) since 2016. From 2016 to 2020, he was a member of the Executive Board of “Alta Scuola Politecnica - ASP” (http://www.asp-poli.it/), a multidisciplinary and unique international honour program, created by Politecnico di Milano e Politecnico di Torino. His research lies in the field of energy and environmental sustainability, in particular regarding use of renewable sources for the production of drinking water, heat and mass transfer in energy devices, and numerical modelling of materials. In particular, materials modelling provides an essential contribution in the analysis of experiments, procedures and measurement standards, which are essential for the digital transformation of metrological services. From 2008 to 2019, he was very active in securing research funds for his team, mainly from the H2020 Programme, acting as Principal Investigator (5 projects), Co-PI (1 project with MIT), Unit Leader (7 projects) and Group Leader (5 projects). He has on-going collaborations with Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) and Imperial College (UK). He has published 140+ articles in international journals, including Energy & Environmental Science, Science Advances and Nature Sustainability.
Curriculum
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- Premio "Optime" Unione Industriale di Torino conferred by Unione Industriale di Torino, Italy (2001)
- ENI ITALGAS PRIZE conferred by ENI - ITALGAS, Italy (2006)
- Premio UIT per la miglior tesi di dottorato conferred by Unione Italiana Termofluidodinamica, Italy (2007)
Fellowships
- Steering Committe member - Unione Italiana di Termofluidodinamica (U.I.T.), Italia (2022-)
- Vice-President - Unione Italiana di Termofluidodinamica (U.I.T.), Italia (2022-)
- Advisory Board member - Open Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (OpenKIM), Stati Uniti (2018-)
- Steering Committe member - Unione Italiana di Termofluidodinamica (U.I.T.), Italia (2016-2022)
- Steering Committe member - European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC), Europeo (2014-2019)
Editorial boards
- THERMO (2020-2021), Editorial board member
- COMPUTATION (2012-), Editorial board member
Management or scientific roles in Research Institutes
- Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (2020-2025)
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Visiting Researcher, presso Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - JSPS (5/9/2009-26/9/2009)
Other titles
- Coordinator of the Master Program “Development of innovative design / construction guidelines, technologies and processes for advanced components and thermal systems with enhanced performance for vehicle applications”, organized for DENSO Thermal Systems. (2017-2019)
- Deputy Coordinator of the Degree Program in Mechanical Engineering. (2016-2020)
- Member of the Executive Board of “Alta Scuola Politecnica - ASP” (http://www.asp-poli.it/), a multidisciplinary and unique international honour program, created by Politecnico di Milano e Politecnico di Torino. (2016-2020)
Research networks
- European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC), working group on Mesoscopic Models (2014-2019). Coordinamento
Roles as evaluator or expert
- Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Unit D.3 — Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies. 2014
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Unit D.3 — Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies. 2016
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Unit D.3 — Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies. 2015
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- ENERGETICA, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - MATERIALI, PROCESSI SOSTENIBILI E SISTEMI PER LA TRANSIZIONE ENERGETICA, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - MATERIALI, PROCESSI SOSTENIBILI E SISTEMI PER LA TRANSIZIONE ENERGETICA, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2019/2020 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2018/2019 (34. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2017/2018 (33. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2016/2017 (32. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2015/2016 (31. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2014/2015 (30. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2013/2014 (29. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2012/2013 (28. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2011/2012 (27. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2010/2011 (26. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi of the degree programmes
Teachings
PhD
- Innovative modelling approaches for multi-scale heat and mass transfer: From Molecular Dynamics to Quantum Computing. A.A. 2025/26, ENERGETICA. Teaching assistant
- Modelling of Nanoscale heat and mass transfer phenomena. A.A. 2024/25, ENERGETICA. Teaching assistant
- Modelling of Nanoscale heat and mass transfer phenomena. A.A. 2023/24, ENERGETICA. Teaching assistant
- Modelling of Nanoscale heat and mass transfer phenomena. A.A. 2022/23, ENERGETICA. Teaching assistant
- Modelling of Nanoscale heat and mass transfer phenomena. A.A. 2021/22, ENERGETICA. Teaching assistant
- Energy for future factories. A.A. 2019/20, ENERGETICA. Teaching assistant
- Water desalination: Processes, materials and the future. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Thermal measurements and controls. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Termodinamica applicata e trasmissione del calore. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Titolare del corso
- Termodinamica applicata e trasmissione del calore. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Titolare del corso
Research
Research groups
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- Heat Transfer and Thermal Energy Storage Enhancement by Foams and Nanoparticles, (2019-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN - VIMMP - NMBP-25-2017, (2018-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - NANOTECHNOLOGIES - SMARTFAN - NMBP-04-2017, (2018-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - NANOTECHNOLOGIES - Oyster - NMBP-07-2017, (2017-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - NANOTECHNOLOGIES - COMPOSELECTOR - NMBP-23-2016, (2017-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - NANOTECHNOLOGIES - Contributo CRT - Assegnazione del Contributo CRT destinato ai docenti che hanno superato il primo step di valutazione ERC senza aver ottenuto il finanziamento., (2016-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research - EMMC-CSA - NMBP-24-2016, (2016-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - NANOTECHNOLOGIES - MODCOMP - NMP-22-2015, (2016-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - NANOTECHNOLOGIES - NANOSTEP - NANOfluid-based direct Solar absorption for Thermal Energy and water Purification, (2015-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research - (NANO-BRIDGE) TRASPORTO DI CALORE E DI MASSA IN NANO-STRUTTURE MEDIANTE DINAMICA MOLECOLARE, RIDUZIONE SISTEMATICA DEI MODELLI E TERMODINAMICA DI NON-EQUILIBRIO, (2014-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN - DRAPO’ - SISTEMI AUSILIARI INTEGRATI AD ALTA EFFICIENZA PER IL RECUPERO DELL’ENERGIA E LA RIDUZIONE DEI CONSUMI DI AUTOVEICOLI, (2013-2015) - Responsabile Scientifico
Regionally funded research - 'ARTEMIS', AUTOMOTIVE PEMFC RANGE EXTENDER WITH HIGH TEMPERATURE IMPROVED MEAS AND STACKS, (2012-2015) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - VII PQ - COOPERATION - Energy - RICOPRIMENTI SUPERFICIALI NANO-INGEGNERIZZATI MEDIANTE NANOTUBI DI CARBONIO PER LO SCAMBIO TERMICO AD ALTA EFFICIENZA ENERGETICA (THERMALSKIN), (2012-2015) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - FIRB - MODELLAZIONE MICROSCOPICA E STUDIO DEI MECCANISMI DI DEGRADAZIONE DELLA MEMBRANA ELETTROLITICA E DEGLI ELETTRODI CATALIZZATORI IN CELLE PEM AD ALTA TEMPERATURA, (2010-2012) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN - THERMONANO, LOW-TEMPERATURE HEAT EXCHANGERS BASED ON THERMALLY-CONDUCTIVE POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES, (2009-2012) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - VII PQ - COOPERATION - Energy - ENERGRID - ENERGRID:DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A GRID INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN MODELING ENERGY NETWORKS BASED ON WIDESPREAD SOURCES OF HEAT AND POWER GENERATION, (2007-2011) - Responsabile Scientifico
Regionally funded research
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Low Salinity per applicazioni EOR: Studio di fattibilità: Analisi dei requisiti di sistema e stato dell’arte, (2016-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - ANALISI TERMOFLUIDODINAMICA DI SCAMBIATORI DI CALORE MEDIANTE TECNICHE DI SIMULAZIONE NUMERICA, (2010-2011) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - REALIZZAZIONE DI UN APPARATO DI PROVA PER TUBAZIONI RESISTENTI AL FUOCO , (2009-2010) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Nada Alghamdi. Programme in Energetica (39th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Giulio Barletta. Programme in Energetica (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Research subject: Use of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Optimization of Innovative Solar Cells Production
Innovative Energy Systems Renewable energy Conversion, storage and decarbonization of energy vectors Innovative Energy Systems Renewable energy Conversion, storage and decarbonization of energy vectors Innovative Energy Systems Renewable energy Conversion, storage and decarbonization of energy vectors - Davide Forte. Programme in Materiali, Processi Sostenibili E Sistemi Per La Transizione (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Arsham Mortazavi. Programme in Energetica (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Matteo Maria Piredda. Programme in Energetica (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Roberta Cappabianca. Programme in Energetica (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Atomistic Modelling of Transport and Aggregation Phenomena for Energy Applications - Francesco Maria Bellussi. Programme in Energetica (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Enhanced Multiscale Modeling of Wetting Phenomena on Surfaces with Tailored Properties for Energy Devices
Other activities and projects related to research
His research lies in the field of energy and environmental sustainability, in particular regarding the use of renewable sources for the production of drinking water, the heat and mass transfer in energy devices, and the modeling of materials. He was team leader for numerous European (8 in H2020) and national projects. He has on-going collaborations with Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) and Imperial College (UK). He has published more than 110 articles in international journals, including Energy & Environmental Science, Science Advances and Nature Sustainability (Google Scholar statistics: citations 3357; h-index 34).
He is an international member of the Advisory Committee of the American OpenKIM project ( https://openkim.org ) for interatomic models since 2018. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Union of Thermo-fluid dynamics (UIT) since 2016. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Heliyon Energy (Cell Press) since 2016. He was formerly a member of the Operational Management Board of the European Council for Material Modeling (EMMC) from 2014 to 2019.
Publications
Last years publications
PoliTO co-authors
Publications by type
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- Muhammad, Atta; Valero, Clara; De Angelis, Paolo; Koutroumanis, Nikolaos; Semitekolos, ... (2025)
From nanoscale to printed products: Multiscale modeling and experimental characterization of graphene-enhanced polylactic acid composites for 3D printing. In: COMPOSITES. PART B, ENGINEERING, vol. 298. ISSN 1359-8368
Contributo su Rivista - Scott-Fordsmand, Janeck J.; Gomes, Susana I. L.; Pokhrel, Suman; Mädler, Lutz; Fasano, ... (2024)
Machine Learning Allowed Interpreting Toxicity of a Fe-Doped CuO NM Library Large Data Set─An Environmental In Vivo Case Study. In: ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, vol. 16, pp. 42862-42872. ISSN 1944-8244
Contributo su Rivista - Morciano, Matteo; Alberghini, Matteo; Fasano, Matteo; Almiento, Mariella; Calignano, ... (2024)
Enhanced latent thermal energy battery with additive manufacturing. In: Eurotherm 2024, Bled, Slovenia. ISSN 1742-6588
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Stincone, Giovanni; Meo, Roberto Raffaele; Chiavazzo, Eliodoro; Asinari, Pietro; Fasano, ... (2024)
Optimizing the Marangoni effect towards enhanced salt rejection in thermal passive desalination. In: DESALINATION, vol. 583. ISSN 0011-9164
Contributo su Rivista - De Angelis, Paolo; Cappabianca, Roberta; Fasano, Matteo; Asinari, Pietro; Chiavazzo, ... (2024)
Enhancing ReaxFF for molecular dynamics simulations of lithium-ion batteries: an interactive reparameterization protocol. In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 14. ISSN 2045-2322
Contributo su Rivista - Provenzano, Marina; Bellussi, FRANCESCO MARIA; Morciano, Matteo; Asinari, Pietro; ... (2023)
Method for predicting the wettability of micro-structured surfaces by continuum phase-field modelling. In: METHODSX (AMSTERDAM), vol. 11. ISSN 2215-0161
Contributo su Rivista - Muhammad, Atta; Srivastava, Rajat; Koutroumanis, Nikolaos; Semitekolos, Dionisis; ... (2023)
Mesoscopic Modeling and Experimental Validation of Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene Nanocomposites Reinforced By Graphene-Based Fillers. In: MACROMOLECULES, vol. 56, pp. 9969-9982. ISSN 1520-5835
Contributo su Rivista - Andreozzi, Assunta; Asinari, Pietro; Barletta, Antonio; Bianco, Vincenzo; Bocanegra, ... (2023)
Heat Transfer and Thermal Energy Storage Enhancement by Foams and Nanoparticles. In: ENERGIES, vol. 16. ISSN 1996-1073
Contributo su Rivista - Moitra, Shashwata; Elsharkawy, Mohamed; Russo, Antonio; Sarkar, Sreya; Ganguly, Ranjan; ... (2023)
Droplet orthogonal impact on nonuniform wettability surfaces. In: DROPLET, vol. 2. ISSN 2731-4375
Contributo su Rivista - Provenzano, M.; Bellussi, F. M.; Morciano, M.; Rossi, E.; Schleyer, M.; Asinari, P.; ... (2023)
Experimentally validated phase-field model to design the wettability of micro-structured surfaces. In: MATERIALS & DESIGN, vol. 231. ISSN 1873-4197
Contributo su Rivista - Muhammad, Atta; Sáenz Ezquerro, Carlos; Srivastava, Rajat; Asinari, Pietro; Laspalas, ... (2023)
Atomistic to Mesoscopic Modelling of Thermophysical Properties of Graphene-Reinforced Epoxy Nanocomposites. In: NANOMATERIALS, vol. 13. ISSN 2079-4991
Contributo su Rivista - Cappabianca, Roberta; De Angelis, Paolo; Fasano, Matteo; Chiavazzo, Eliodoro; Asinari, ... (2023)
An Overview on Transport Phenomena within Solid Electrolyte Interphase and Their Impact on the Performance and Durability of Lithium-Ion Batteries. In: ENERGIES, vol. 16. ISSN 1996-1073
Contributo su Rivista - Mishra, S.; Srivastava, R.; Muhammad, A.; Amit, Amit; Chiavazzo, E.; Fasano, M.; ... (2023)
The impact of physicochemical features of carbon electrodes on the capacitive performance of supercapacitors: a machine learning approach. In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 13. ISSN 2045-2322
Contributo su Rivista - Morciano, Matteo; Fasano, Matteo; Calignano, Flaviana; Manfredi, DIEGO GIOVANNI; ... (2023)
3D printed lattice metal structures for enhanced heat transfer in latent heat storage systems. In: JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE, vol. 65, pp. 1-10. ISSN 2352-152X
Contributo su Rivista - Cappabianca, Roberta; DE ANGELIS, Paolo; Cardellini, Annalisa; Chiavazzo, Eliodoro; ... (2022)
Assembling Biocompatible Polymers on Gold Nanoparticles: Toward a Rational Design of Particle Shape by Molecular Dynamics. In: ACS OMEGA, vol. 7, pp. 42292-42303. ISSN 2470-1343
Contributo su Rivista
Society and Enterprise
Patents and other intellectual properties
- Dispositivo per la condensazione rigenerativa a film sottile. national and international Patent
Inventors: Pietro Asinari Eliodoro Chiavazzo - Metodo e dispositivo per l'evaporazione a film sottile mediante energia solare. national and international Patent
Inventors: Pietro Asinari Eliodoro Chiavazzo - Metodo e apparato per l'evaporazione in trappola cava mediante energia solare o altra radiazione diretta. national Patent
Inventors: Pietro Asinari Eliodoro Chiavazzo